by Jennifer Leigh | Mar 16, 2017 | Withdrawal symptoms |
Chemical sensitivity is common in benzo withdrawal. Without enough working GABA receptors, our central nervous systems can be highjacked very quickly. I remember walking through Home Depot when I was early off of Klonopin. When I walked down the fertilizer and weed...
by Jennifer Leigh | Mar 9, 2017 | Coping Skills |
Shame. Most of us experience it in benzo withdrawal. For some of us, it comes roaring into our lives like a freight train. It touches every corner of our daily existence. For others, it seeps in slowly, almost imperceptibly, but it’s there, taunting us. Even for...
by Jennifer Leigh | Feb 27, 2017 | Coping Skills |
Life in benzo withdrawal is far from ideal. There are so many things that we can’t do like we used to be able to do. Even things like going out to lunch with friends, watching a movie, or even driving to the grocery store, are tasks that we may feel that we are...
by Jennifer Leigh | Feb 6, 2017 | Coping Skills |
My fall from grace, as I used to think of it, was swift and hard. I went from being an incredibly well-paid, sought after coach, to being bedridden and unable to put coherent thoughts together. Wracked with pain and weakness and suffering from extreme anxiety, panic,...
by Jennifer Leigh | Jan 30, 2017 | Recovery |
After my cold turkey, I often felt like an ice cream cone in July. I was melting away. I’d step on the scale and watch the numbers grow smaller and smaller. 118. 115. 110. 105. 100. 99. 95. My pants hung slack where I once sported a very...
